Dechristianization

The dechristianization was a policy the purpose of which, during the French revolution, was to remove the Christianisme daily life in France: priests off-set or assassinated, religious constrained to abjure their wishes, cross and destroyed holy pictures, religious festivals prohibited, removed Diary S, and prohibition of the Worship public and deprived.

Events

Year II (1793) sees the apogee of the policy of dechristianization. The movement begins the October 5th 1793 with the decrees on the revolutionary calendar, substitutes the Grégorien calendar by the revolutionary calendar.

The dechristianization is amplified by the will of some Représentants on mission like Joseph Fouché which, in the Nievre and in Coast-D' Gold, prohibited any demonstration external of the Culte. Supported by the Armed S revolutionists, the representatives then will pass to closing and the Pillage of the church S.

The November 23rd 1793, the Convention orders the closing of the churches of the capital.

Culminating point, the worship of the Reason to Notre-Dame de Paris on November 10th 1794. November 24th, Pierre-Gaspard Chaumette organizes a worship of the Reason with Notre-Dame de Paris. The churches are closed and generally transformed into Entrepôt S. the Culte is transformed into Supreme worship Être, at the instigation of Robespierre, and is accompanied by civic festivals. In this Worship, the religious festivals are transformed into various kinds of Fête S. Seule the festival of the Nature, in Prairial, will have a real success.

But Convention worries about a movement which is not the application of a decision taken to the top, and which is likely to detach the catholic of the Revolution. A speech recalls to the order the Hébertistes.

Forms of the dechristianization

The dechristianization appeared various ways:

persecutions and massacres of the refractory priests,
the Auto-da-fe S,
name changes of places,
suppression of the Diary S,
suppression of the Gregorian Calendar and the installation of the republican Calendar, with " semaines" from ten days (suppression of the Sunday),
abdications,
the Iconoclasme,
cast iron of the Silverware,
civic festivals,
cast iron of the Bell S,
the worship of the Reason,
the worship To be it supreme.

It is necessary to add to this list the Profanation of tomb X in the Basilique Saint-Denis: the tombs of principal the King S of France were profaned, in two waves, in August 1793, and of the 12 at October 25th 1793, at the instigation of Barère, spokesperson of the Comité of public hello.

Continuations

The republican Calendrier posed problems of rest Hebdomadaire (Semaine S 10 days), as well as difficulties of translation between Calendrier S with the Frontière S for the exchanges. It was abandoned in 1806.

The churches are reopened on May 31st 1795. The movement will continue to decrease appreciably after the Coup d'etat of the 18 fructidor year V (September 4th, 1797). The Concordat restores officially the worship in 1802. The Gregorian Calendrier is restored only in 1806, for the period of the Empire.

Later on, the dechristianization generated in France at the 19th century various movements of scientism, ideology, or Utopia.

See too

; Before the dechristianization itself

; The worship of the Reason and To be it supreme

; Change of calendar

; Implied revolutionists

; Other

Praises in repair of the blasphemies

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